Jesse McCauley
McCauley Cycle Works
I'm sure many of you have seen some of the variations of "concealed" spoon brakes of the 1890's but upon a bit of digging I've found there is no such thread dedicated so here we go.
I've seen a few variations of complicated and interesting concealed spoon brakes, most seem to be independent inventions that are then adopted by any given company though that is almost certanly not a universal.
The first brake I found of this style was mounted to a Stearns, it was designed by the Spencer company and was exceptionally complicated- graphic to follow -
I spent a couple hours more recently trying to re-mount the tension spring of a spoon brake inside the steer tube of an early Lady Ide. Despite the time consumption the design was rather straightforward, just a matter of having to re-think the engineering / building process and do it backwards after cleaning (i'll post a few pictures when I can get on my phone)
Today though I am playing with a brake I don't quite understand.... Gendron Signal No. 3 with a brake that runs through the side of the stem. I'm curious what the arm or plunger would look like as it is missing and the design is not intuitive for me.
Pictures to follow (I think I may still be at my tapatalk picture limit so maybe tomorrow?)
I've seen a few variations of complicated and interesting concealed spoon brakes, most seem to be independent inventions that are then adopted by any given company though that is almost certanly not a universal.
The first brake I found of this style was mounted to a Stearns, it was designed by the Spencer company and was exceptionally complicated- graphic to follow -
I spent a couple hours more recently trying to re-mount the tension spring of a spoon brake inside the steer tube of an early Lady Ide. Despite the time consumption the design was rather straightforward, just a matter of having to re-think the engineering / building process and do it backwards after cleaning (i'll post a few pictures when I can get on my phone)
Today though I am playing with a brake I don't quite understand.... Gendron Signal No. 3 with a brake that runs through the side of the stem. I'm curious what the arm or plunger would look like as it is missing and the design is not intuitive for me.
Pictures to follow (I think I may still be at my tapatalk picture limit so maybe tomorrow?)